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  Hamas’s sexual terrorism is laid bare and still the world chooses to look the other way Camilla Long The scene of Hamas atrocities at the Nova music festival on October 7, 2023. Exhaustive witness accounts were published last week in the report by the Civil Commission Next image  › There are many ways evil people attack those they hate. First and foremost, they physically harm them. They burn, rape and kill. Then they shame and terrorise them: celebrating massacres, live-streaming murders. But there is one weapon far more devastating than all of this. It’s cheap and widely available. That weapon is, of course, silence. To read any one of the 298 pages of the Civil Commission’s report, published last week, on the rapes carried out by Hamas on October 7 is to be plunged back into hell. There is not only the graphic horror of it — the maimings, the torture, the shocking sexual violence — but the knowledge that, in the days, months and years after it happened, many people preten...
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  Navigated Menu Back Financial Times Financial Times UK 6 May 2026 Buttons.Search Options Imbal­ances are back on the global agenda Mar­tin Wolf Eco­nom­ics mar­tin.wolf@ft.com Settings Translate Article Print Share Listen Poli­cy­makers must over­come the fal­lacy that the way to get rich is by run­ning sur­pluses forever Again? Didn’t we just have this debate?” This is how the open­ing chapter of a col­lec­tion of essays pub­lished by the Centre for Eco­nomic Policy Research, on “The New Global Imbal­ances”, starts. Yes, we did. We did so in the 1980s, in the 2000s and now, once again, in the 2020s. Once roughly every 20 years, it appears, the issue comes to the fore. This is so for two good reas­ons. One is that cur­rent account imbal­ances drive pro­tec­tion­ist sen­ti­ment. The other is that they are har­bingers of fin­an­cial crisis. In the 1980s, pro­tec­tion­ist sen­ti­ment rose against Japan, which is also where the fin­an­cial crisis struck. In the 2000s, the era of “the...